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Former members of the Baader-Meinhof Gang, Germany’s most notorious homegrown terrorist group, may have struck again in a new armed robbery.

Three former members of the far-Left movement are believed to have raided a security van.

Police have not officially commented, but Bild newspaper reported that detectives suspect a trio of Baader-Meinhoff veterans, named as Burkhard Garweg, Ernst-Volker Staub and Daniela Klette, who have all been on the run since the late 1990s.

The Baader-Meinhof Gang, also known as the Red Army Faction, carried out a three-decade campaign of bombings, kidnappings and assassinations intended to bring Western capitalist society to its knees.

It was responsible for killing at least 30 people between 1970 and 1998, when it officially disbanded.

In the latest incident, the security van was held up in broad daylight by masked gunmen armed with an automatic rifle and an anti-tank rocket launcher.

The van was collecting the day’s takings from a furniture shop in the town of Wolfenbüttel near Brunswick, when it was rammed from behind by an Opel Corsa. At the same time it was blocked in front by a silver Ford estate.

A masked man and a masked woman fired in the air and forced the driver to open the van, while a third robber opened fire into the ceiling of the shop.

“No details can be released at this point on the amount of money that was stolen,” said a police statement.

The group are believed to have stolen as much as €380,000 (£310,000) in previous robberies.

“Thankfully the driver and passenger of the security van only suffered minor injuries. We are seeking any information on the perpetrators or the getaway car they used,” added the police.